[Baltan II]

I have no general preference for my depiction of Godzilla, preferring to let the needs of each film or series dictate the appropriate direction for the Big G's personality. I'll just as readily take my benevolent protector from vs. Megalon and the first Mechagodzilla movies as I would the force of nature Heisei Godzilla, the raging Final-Goji, or the outright malevolent and evil GMK Godzilla.

The only real exceptions are those Godzillas that don't even work in their intended films, that offer nothing personality-wise or clash too much with the intended message of the film. Really, I'm taking about Kiryu-Goji in particular, but that's because that Godzilla suffered from a movie with a muddled and confused purpose to its devastation and bizarre choices of storytelling in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla that utterly failed to work - ie. Godzilla standing there, doing nothing while Kiryu attacks it for the first time as a conscious storytelling choice to emulate Noh theatre... or something. More noticeably than any other Godzilla film that comes to mind, Kiryu-Goji offered no purpose other than to threaten Japan when convenient in the script. Zilla could also be lumped into this category to a lesser degree, though the '98 movie has all sorts of other problems to deal with anyway. I'd also consider Nankai-Goji (Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster) in this category since his personality is due to replacing the intended King Kong.